“America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.”

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Look at things and listen and feel.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Every day above earth is a good day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.

If I told you about a land of love…would you swallow it as a remedy?

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

A car crossed two lanes of traffic, flipped, and landed on my dad’s car. I don’t blame cars. My dad loved cars. I don’t have many memories of my dad. The love of cars is all I have of him, really.

When you stop chasing a butterfly, it may land. This is a lot like love.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.