Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.