What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me.
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, But laughter we can never over-rate.
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.