You have to watch them all the time, ’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.