There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Some day I will be better remembered.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.