I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Be cool to the pizza dude.