"If I can entertain and expand awareness then I feel like I've fulfilled a purpose."

“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”

“If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.”

“Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Italian Painters of the Renaissance”

“Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.”

“I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.”

“There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.”

“He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.”