The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.