Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.