Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.