"I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!"

“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.”

“Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!”

“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”

Source : "Interview with Laura Yorke". "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.

“It becomes an emperor to die standing.”

“I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

“'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.”

“I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.”

“People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.”