And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Every day that I bring this World Title home with me, I realize it's a gift. It's a blessing. And this? This has been the biggest, the BIGGEST ride of my life.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.