To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.

Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.