A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Any method of evangelism will work if God is in it.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations the desire to see ourselves as honest good people and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating on our taxes or on the football field.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

I love my kids beyond anything.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

There is nothing that makes us feel more lonely than our shyness.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

The artists task is to become a successful eccentric a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

I completely scorn the falsifying the sanctimonious the cheap and the shoddy.

Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.