Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Style is important, but content comes first.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

Don’t just be able

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.