I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

But I will be a beautiful disaster.

There’s nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.