If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep goingfor no other reason than to continue. Because that’s all there is to do.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.