Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Every thought you have affects everything in your body.