The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

Your life may not be 'picture perfect' but you have it in you to make it 'your best.' There's only one chance at life and you owe it to yourself to give it all you can.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.