But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Celebrating Culture is celebrating existence.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

My children are the most important thing in my life.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.