It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

A lie never lives to be old.