Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.