Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

He had a warning heart attack in his 30's after a meal of macaroni and cheese and big mac's and macaroons.. but God gave him a 2nd chance.

...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where they laid to paint the blue sky jade.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.