When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.