We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
If you rest, you rust.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Childhood is a short season.
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out of rooms, but I do like to run things.
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.
