To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

I really do not make deals.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

I'm thankful for my POLKADOTS!

I should like to have been killed in the war.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.