Some things we must pass over in silence.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.