Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

After this, I can't resist. "Between you, me, and the rest of us, Ted, it's starting to show. You'd better work out, or getting fat off Daddy might be harder to hide.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.