“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.”

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.

I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

I’m only good at being bad.

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about who is right.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.