Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Trust me. I'm going to make sure this healthcare bill is never, ever, ever implemented.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.