I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Fear makes you a stranger to yourself.

You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.