No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The law is above the law, you know.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical figure at all.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.