I do try to live a normal life.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

Define success by your terms, not by other people’s standards.

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?

The real war will never get in the books.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.