Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

A cat is nobody's fool.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

For the truth there is no deadline.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

For truth there is no deadline.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

The adults were completely wrong.

Being a lady does not require silence.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.