"You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further."

“Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.”

Source : "R.v.R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Borin Van Loon, 1930.

“Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.”

“Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.”

“God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him”

“There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.”

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”

Source : Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

“Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”

“If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.”