Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

we forgive in order to free our own hearts and souls and return ourselves to a state of love.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.