Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.