The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better than I can.

There’s no arguing with a song that writes itself.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Isolation must precede true society.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.