Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

A daily practice of how you shall live in heaven, here on earth, is a good qualification plan to get to heaven

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.