The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

We cannot pray and remain the same.