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"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

"Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'"

"It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves."

"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

"Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements."

"Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.""

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more."