What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.