There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

Everyone is their own, though they are so alone. They all sit on their imagined thrones, made only of their own bones. Ego and pride make exquisite delusional cushions.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.