To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Don't let the brownies bite.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.