Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I just want my stories to be mine.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.