It is very difficult to stop feeling.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

When someone says you've changed, it's because you are no longer willing to live your life their way

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.