The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

The future enters into us in order to transform itself in us long before it happens.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

When it comes to war we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film it was intelligent it was funny it took a laugh at itself.

My hair has never been my greatest feature so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

Working with people the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship then it will take care of itself.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller Gabriel Noone who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS who does not have much longer to live.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Friendship of itself a holy tie is made more sacred by adversity.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom innocence and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

The American idea is as promising imaginative and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence and fighting for its own freedom fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

The simpler the food the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.