You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Each thinking mind is a political mind

The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.