Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Angels constantly guard the clients of this Blessed Virgin from the assaults of Hell.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

Myspace hurts my eyes.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.