A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!