The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

I don't have any ambition.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I was there, and I never been to one of them, and I like a parade. I always like a parade. So, I go there, and it turns out, it's just a bunch of gay guys.