I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself

Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.