"If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?"

“There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.”

“It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.”

“Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.”

“I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.”

“Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.”

“Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!”

Source : "The end of the GSA? House committee chair: We've seen only the 'tip of the iceberg'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 17, 2012.

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

“It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.”

Source : "Sean Astin Talks MOM'S NIGHT OUT, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo del Toro's THE STRAIN, Being Game for a GOONIES Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.