"Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults."

"Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people."

"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."

"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."

"Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame."

"I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'"

"Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does."