Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
Live while you live, then die and be done with.
The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.
Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.