I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having.

Be strong and take action to achieve your dream.

For me, architecture is a social act.

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.