Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.