When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Respect isn't automatically earned. You have to first position yourself with a level of mannerism that's worth emulating, before others could see a strong reason to respect you.

Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.