There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Where the cheerful childrenof unwritten poems, play all around, you will find me there.

Move on. Move on.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.