A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.