Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to bloom in the morning!

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.