I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.

There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. But what is Repentance? Not the last and noblest and most refined achievement of the righteousness of men in the service of God, but the first elemental act of the righteousness of God in the service of men; the work that God has written in their hearts and which, because it is from God and not from men, occasions joy in heaven; that looking forward to God, and to Him only, which is recognized only by God and by God Himself.

The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate, but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.

To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining belles of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.

Enthusiasm moves the world.