On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.
The brave venture anything.
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.