Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.
I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy. ' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.