Wise men still seek Him today.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

But in action, one defies one's character.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

The living sinners on deadly ground.

[Christians] are called to distinguish themselves as Christ followers, not community organizers.

He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

love is the only thing we have to save us

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.