Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

I should have told you the minute I saw you that you look beautiful. I do love the way you look tonight.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.