... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Hard roads are not opened by themselves

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Someday death will take us to another star.