Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

I just want to keep writing music.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.