The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.

I grew up as a country boy.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major problem.

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

O Lord equipped the sacred souls to do thy work.

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.