"When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration."

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

"Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington."

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter."

"But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more."

"Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men."

"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise."

"The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses."

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."

"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"

"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity."