Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Is there any pure pleasure like praying?

If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.