The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Love is stronger than hate.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.