The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

Life is serious, motherhood should be fun.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.