If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Time just gets away from us.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

As a matter of fact, it's in our interests that we help reformers across the Middle East achieve their objectives. This is the fundamental challenge of the 21st century.

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.

Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.