Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.
If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road. . . all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Franklin may. . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.