All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on honesty.