I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

Men are lead by trifles.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.