Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Roast beef medium is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

The goats business is none of the sheeps concern.

Christmas isnt a season. Its a feeling.

Houseworks the hardest work in the world. Thats why men wont do it.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

I shot a Metallica video in Hollywood, and there were, like, 100 people on set. There was even a guy there to put antiseptic gel on my hands. Amazing. If I asked for that on a Danish set, they'd probably kick me out of the country.

I've always had a passion to help people.

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

The Marine Aquarium Council really wants us to keep the coral and the fish safe. They are not saying it is bad to have an aquarium in your house, just that you should make sure when you buy fish for your aquarium... they have been Marine Aquarium Council-certified.

TUESDAY I can't even see the weekend from here.