Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Be a rock, not a pebble.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.