In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

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.