A thief believes everybody steals.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

I do like the ladies an awful lot. Surprisingly enough, it turns out ladies like me back; I'm a really good guy.

I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same.

I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.