“Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.”

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.

Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I remember one moment when we heard two students saying don’t talk to those guys, meaning my brother and me.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

My brother, if it’s not in the Bible, He’s not in it!! If it’s not in the Word of God, He is not in it.

I’ve been doing Porky Pig for 21 years for Warner Brothers.

And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they’re sick, rather than take to their beds.

And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know,

I didn’t want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.