It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.