Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking read more

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. read more

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe read more

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when read more

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.