The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.