Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.