If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

We are tomorrow's past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Saddle your dreams before you ride 'em.

We are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood echoes of the past reflex echoes of the future and echoes of the soil these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Blessings happen more frequently when we take the time to notice them.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

Many people think of child support when they think of deadbeat dad however these dads also may classify as deadbeat if they refuse to care adequately for their children.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to try; that's the fun of it right? Each new style brings new challenges - not that you shouldn't focus on one and master it, but it takes so long to make a film, you just want to have some variety.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.