To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Honor is for the Lord. Who the Lord honors, and how He'll do it, is all up to Him.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

I pay for everything I'm proposing.

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things