Music is the softest cushion in the world.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Some people come into your life like a flower. She fills your heart with love, amuses your mind with her beauty, and leaves you with enduring joy because she once touched your life.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Some people have nothing but experience.

Reading makes me happy.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.