A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness
Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all. ' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you. '
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store. . . To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.
For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food. ' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.