I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Strange, what the heart can bear. It can carry grief beyond measure. It can bear a weight that is too great to speak of. But a heart can't bear the world. It has its limits...

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

This is a pie chart about procrastination.

Temperance is love in training.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Luck whines; labor whistles.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.