celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

You have to be an outsider to write.

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.