"Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls..."

“On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.”

“Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com

“It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.”

Source : Leon Battista Alberti, Cecil Grayson (1972). “On painting and On sculpture: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua”

“In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.”

“I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.”

“The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.”

Source : Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.163, Harvard University Press

“Your soul needs a Lover more than your floor needs carpet.”

“I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.”