I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

The strength of individual greatness makes a great team.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice."

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.