I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.
Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China.
Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.
The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there's no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.
