Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

The only thing on Earth you can count on is that there is nothing on Earth you can count on.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Through our thanks, we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into this world.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.