I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts.

I can always forgive where I understand.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.