A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.