I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open