From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

"An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life."

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He was born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it."