You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure..

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.