Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

If the pain is not felt or it doesn't hurt you...it can never change you. Being susceptible to pain is a blessing.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.

Power is the ability to make change.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

Water is the blood in our veins.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.