Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.