Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

Look around and you will see what others are not seeing

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.