The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.