Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
First-rate people hire first-rate people second-rate people hire third-rate people.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best desc...
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understo...
Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.