True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

I came to the earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

This can't be true but I remember it.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.