I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. . . . Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing today is everyone sounds the same. We speak differently. We think differently. People are different. And that's the beauty of it.
Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up. . . because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.