People naturally despise a dependant.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Rain is just God weeping for Earth’s troubles.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

I loved 'Rocky' and 'Rambo', and am very proud of them.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.