The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.

Magic is logic.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

No matter how different we are on the outside, the love we have within us is the same.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.