People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
You don't become the character
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures. . . In any true piece of art. . . the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.
I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.