Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

True love is deep spiritual affection.

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

America, to me, is freedom.