Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about...

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

To my editors, I graciously thank you. I now know “is” and “was” aren't the same thing. It's the periods and commas that got me. Can't see the darn things.

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.