If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

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.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

...staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.