"Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable."

“I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''”

Source : "'Night Music''s Polly Bergen is Back in Baltimore". Interview with James Howard, www.broadwayworld.com. March 27, 2008.

“I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.”

“It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.”

Source : Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.

“The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.”

“Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.”

“Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.”

“As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.”

“If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.”