Politics makes strange post-masters.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?