A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, " the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

We all enjoy being comfy, but my comfy - you know, I love a nice, cozy cashmere sweater and spandex, sure.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.