I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.