There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

I’d do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I’d walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you.

Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you're away a lot. If you're dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.