Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.

He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving

If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.