Many Quotes

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world.