Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Women are like sparkling diamonds, if you let too many hands touch it, not only will it get dirty with too many smudges and finger prints, it will also lose its shine and lustre.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.