Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.

Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.