The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

A lie never lives to be old.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Moonlight is sculpture.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment