A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.