If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

Beauty is a social necessity.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which are more sure and solid than all experience and even life itself.

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '

Where were they when the Russians went down?

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.