Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

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.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

You're never completely ready...It just becomes your turn.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.