Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
I wasn't kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth.
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.
An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.