Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Many are called but few get up.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

As a writer I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.