Have a definite opinion.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.