The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get to work, your future lies ahead of you

No one else can stop us from loving ourselves, just as no one else is to blame when we don’t. I promise to stop blaming your for everything I don’t like about myself.

Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let’s take every second to make the most out of every moment.

Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty.

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.