Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.