I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. 

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” 

“I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.” 

“Change seems recognizable only after it’s happened, like putting one’s foot down for a familiar stair—and it’s not there.” 

“We are so different, yet so much the same.” 

“The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I’ve ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, “Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!” 

“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” 

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”

“With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.”

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” 

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” 

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?