...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.

There are no ugly women only lazy ones.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I don't digest things with my mind.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.