But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence