Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

Some things look better inside of the store.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible. (Charles Haanel)

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.