The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity,….

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family..

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes..

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn.

There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never ge….

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord..

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots awa….

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through ….

I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impul….

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will e….

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference….

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United St….

I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I wo….

Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't ….

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70….

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, thi….

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization..

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'.

I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard wee….

American press, like the press in many countries, acts like a cheerleader to our government rather than a critical observer. This is especially true,….

I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' ….