Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

If you can do it then why do it?

it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.