Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

I will help women, because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Really? Anyone intimidated by Barack Obama? He can't even keep Joe Biden in line.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.