Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.

But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our ultimate existence? What's our present? Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.

The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about

A perfect guest is one who makes his host feel at home.