Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

I don't have a hot date. I don't even have a lukewarm date.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.