Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group.

...What is easier for us isn't necessarily what is better for us.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?