One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

You dare travel on the own sacred road.

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.