Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.