The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

I chose not to fight it. Eating them...is my revenge.

Live the dream awake.

Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Tammy Faye said, "I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad."

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.