If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

I think when the movie 'Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.