Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

You have to be yourself. You have to go up and you just have to do it.