"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come to believe that we're living at a critical time when the American Dream is in jeopardy and this American Era which began after World War II might be winding down.”

“Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.”

“All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.”

Source : Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

“[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.”

“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

“Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].”