Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?