The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.