Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

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.

If its a lie, Then let me live, Between the interconnected fabric of truths, Offer me no more, Give me no less.

Grace of God, power of God.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.