If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.