The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.