If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.