If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, 'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit.

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.