My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.