Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.