Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

People want to believe.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

I'm married to the future.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

And are we not all “mere guests” upon this whirling earth?

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!