As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn’t time to execute the plans well enough.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?