You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.

One can never have enough socks

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

If your life's worth living, it's worth recording.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.