Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.

Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.

It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.