Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

To confront death every day, to see it for yourself, you have to love the living

Outside is like a house, under house understand it like hell there isn't any order... I still aks my self how people like Monk survive out there??

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

We have a country, we have to have a border.

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.