Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.

Shine as if you are the brightest star.

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don’t you think?

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.