Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

We have 50,000 moments of truth every day.

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.