It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Great ambition without contribution is without significance. The Emperor's Club

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men.

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Values matters well in a race.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

You can't kill a good comic book series.