Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.
In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.
I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office. ' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.