"It is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different."

“Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.”

Source : Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

“The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus...there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.”

“Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.”

“The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”

“What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus' own school but had only later dared to claim the Apostolic office on the basis of his own authority? The only question comes to be how the apostle Paul appears in his Epistles to be so indifferent to the historical facts of the life of Jesus....He bears himself but little like a disciple who has received the doctrines and the principles which he preaches from the Master whose name he bears.”

“When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.”

“I usually have to find something where I go, "I have to do this." Sometimes you don't even know what the question you're trying to answer is, but you go, "This is something I need to explore and want to explore, and it's inside me in a way that I think I can do a good job with."”

Source : "Director John Lee Hancock Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Why He Takes Time Between Projects, Working with Disney’s Legal Department, and THE AMERICAN CAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

“And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House