The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.