The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

She wanted to punch her father in his snout, but she wouldn’t. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.