Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Not all questions can be answered.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

Everything is theater.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.