I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

People should and do trust me.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.