NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

Passion produces the best discipline.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

If you arent focused on success, youre failing.