You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

[History is] petrified imagination.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

I am not a clone of Sarah Palin. I have my own thoughts.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom!

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.