Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce

It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.