Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The future ain't what it used to be.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.