Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.