Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

... wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.