Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

Why speculate when you can calculate?

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

It's the struggle that makes you triumphant.