The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am not a dog!' he shouted agrily, his gold earrings flashing in the firelight.

Not giving him booze, are you? He's a little young for it.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.