We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.