I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

There is no sinner like a young saint.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Character matters leadership descends from character.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

A man can't retire his experience.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.