You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark closed inside someone else when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.

The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed unanimously in the House, won 97 votes in the Senate, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Twenty states have passed their own versions of this law, and 11 additional ones have religious-liberty protections that state courts have interpreted to provide a similar level of protection.

I love working in London.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

We cannot learn men from books.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent and what do you get for it A ham.

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

I've always loved small business.

In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.