We are all looking for perfection in our lives, but the truth is, there is no perfect. There’s just better and worse. And for what we are in this world, not being perfect is the perfect thing.

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.

Is man wiser than his Maker?

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.