Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.