Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh!

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.