In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.
I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.