In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem. . . . it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The time passing allows for - if you're really following people's lives, and this isn't a cartoon - someone gets pregnant, a child will be born, etc. You really don't want to be locked into "Every episode is a month later. " The show is very intense to make. There's always going to be some downtime between seasons, and to me, it really helps to come back to the next season in the reality of that world, and have almost as much time passed in their lives as has passed in yours.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.