Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus, and that cures the problem.

They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb

Celebrate every moment of your life. In one memorable day, you will be gone.

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

The best gift a fan could give me is undeniable support.

A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult times are, those of us who love the Army must stick with it.