It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.