The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

It is the Mass the matters.

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.