For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.