... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!