But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

Everyone of us has that moment in our life, when you wanted to say NO but say YES even when you know it’s not going in your favor.

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Polo is like tennis - you literally have to live it.