any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.