When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. read more

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, read more

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?