Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

If you want to get what you haven’t gotten yet, then you have to do more than what you were doing before.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.