No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.