The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

you can win a talent show and be so famous that you cant walk down the street, but no-one knows you next monday.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.