I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor. . . If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting it, they have to punish themselves, and it turns into this cycle of failing and falling lower and lower.
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.