I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

Your worst enemies in life are your repeated negative interpretations of your experiences.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

If I announce something i'm making sure I'm doing it.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.