Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Move on, don’t let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on.- RVM

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon