But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Be that self which one truly is.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.