When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

If you rest, you rust.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.