How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball or the theater or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on walking towards utopia which may not exist on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.