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If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
[A fanatic is] one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
