Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.