If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Everything I touch turns to gold.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.