Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.