Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Americans are artisans in freedom.

Yes, Rose. Love is a wonderful feeling!

It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.

If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.