The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

You are no better than you should be.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

What musicals need is a new me.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

Doing right is never wrong.