A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

God help those who do not help themselves.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!