Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.