There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

Do you love me enough that I am allowedto be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?

Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.