When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment