Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.
We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
The middle course is the best.
Be superior to pleasure.
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.
Safeguard the health of both body and soul.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.
The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.
I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [. . . ] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.