you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Without a purpose nothing should be done.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.