The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.