You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.