Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting, ' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

You are so beautiful, I could eat you, ” he said.And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.And he could eat her.

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

Love side, hate side, never in between

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"