My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Grandma about this feeling, about my suspicion that life was nicking away pieces of me.

We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

I love writing about people on the road.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

When I can't sleep, I don't count sheep. I count lovers. And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.