How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Let's name the sentimental hog Arnold

Halloween without kids is tremendously bad.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.