A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important.
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him.
I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.
I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.
Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.
It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.
My father is my best friend. Just growing up with him inspired me to appreciate music that much more because he appreciates music.
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can't even imagine a world without her - He loves her.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.
