I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.