The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.