To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

You keep on going if you fail.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.