Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him, " said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.

We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens, ' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.