I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: theecho of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, aburst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.

Security is by far the city's predominant business.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do 'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.