In no other sport must the spectator move.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

I club the thing over the head and that's the end of it.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.