Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

You do not have the right to waste time

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival.