The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Your say is not yours unless you say it

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.