Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

live as temporal, serve as eternal

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.