Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

God listens through the atomic door of love.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Anyway, he's gone. Which, as you know, is how I like my men.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.