It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul.

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brothers girlfriends.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.