Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

As long as we are grateful, we shall be glad.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.