Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

When we think of other people as our center and fulfillment, we live frustrated lives.

Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.