In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence.

It is impossible to control creation.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.