"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next."

"Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world."