An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
When in doubt wear red.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
People only see what they are prepared to see.