Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Childhood is a short season.

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

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.

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

If you rest, you rust.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

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