Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you’ll not drift off!

But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

Practice, work hard and give it everything you've got.

You're only as young as the woman you feel.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.