The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

Every experience in life enriches ones background and should teach valuable lessons.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Children enhance you.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

Spiritual awakening is about waking up from your ego. It is not about awakening the ego.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.