Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

Country music has the great stories.

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.