Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.
Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?
Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
If you want what happens in the US, it can happen where you are, too.
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.