I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

She cured me of my sadness.

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Failure is the seed of success

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.