a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly.

The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.

She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.