I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

That's what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that's what we do.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.