Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.