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

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.