Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta you.'

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

I've played everything but the harp.

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.