Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual e

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.