Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

The fact that your current station in life would seem to conspire against your usefulness to God is of no consequence.

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives of others in some most amazing ways

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To fear love is to fear life.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.