If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers

Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.

I know love is real because I feel it.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.