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

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.

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.

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

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.

Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

Who wouldn't want to watch an averagely attractive guy kick a three legged, one eyed dog in the face as it urinates all over itself? The correct answer is no one.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.