Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Wisdom might be conversion into a tree.

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.