All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!

You can face fear, or feel it, her dad used to say. … Feel it, and it eats you alive. Face it, and you get to kick some ugly alien butt. Okay, he never said that. I wonder if they even have butts.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

An attitude's growth never stops.

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.