It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song. "Wherever I go the grass grows greener.

What I am is what the LORD GOD has made of me.

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

No .... holy father, throw away that thought. Believe not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom.