It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

Every new day is a divine order.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

A man is hid under his tongue.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?