The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.

Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.