The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

If you rest, you rust.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningfulbecause they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.

We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

Constancy in a man is rare.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.