My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.

Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

When I go out I get so much love I gotta change my way of thinking.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.