It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today. . . . In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something. . . no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.