Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.