The ideal doctor is patient.

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

I have some advice: Unless she is pregnant or handicapped, don't give up a seat to a woman unless you KNOW she is well over 60. Trust me on this, even if I am a liberal.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.