Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Theater dates very quickly.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.