There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Explore many facets of the written word.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.

I am a little world made cunningly.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.