You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.

What I think is incredible about what Marvel has done and with Jon Favreau I think really maybe helped come up with, is what the template is.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.