Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

Oscar Wilde

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Edward Lear

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

George Saunders

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Carl Perkins

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Peter Jennings

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Thomas Carlyle

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

LeBron James

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Napoleon Bonaparte