A bad penny always turns up.
A barking dog never bites.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A change is as good as a rest.
A dog is a man's best friend.
A fish always rots from the head down.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A golden key can open any door.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good man is hard to find.
A person is known by the company he keeps.
A house is not a home.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
He was perfect last night, perfect this morning. And then … it's just precious. Life is precious.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare.
In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.
I feel blessed to travel the world and land in a place where, when I sing my songs, they sing along with every word.
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.
I think everything we did is based on a commonsense approach.
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
