I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.