The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.