Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

A man’s weakness is his family and a woman’s is her child

I am the witch of my mystical world.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.