Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I salute the 51 congressmen who voted (for the impeachment complaints.) It's not over yet. There will always be hope.

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

patience is an integral part of talent.