The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.