Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.