But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.