"The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not."

“Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.”

“Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.”

“Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.”

“Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.”

“Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

“Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.”

“I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.”

“I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.”