When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

Let me guess. Luke an Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting.” “Yeah. I think they’re having the meeting where they get together and decide what other meetings they need to have.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.