Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.

I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.

Is the undertaker joyous when his turn comes around? All those years holding the door open. To pass through - does it feel like a privileged?

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

whispers are often thunderous

You hear about ghosts: sad ghosts, angry ghosts.I'll tell you, the worst is when they laugh, and the worst sort are the ones whose faces I've forgotten.

surprise it's better than promises

Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile.

The path to tranquility gets through the storms!

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.