Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

A room is not a room without natural light.

May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.