By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.