Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

Be the compassion you seek.

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

Not enough is a spiritual state, not an economic one.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.