Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?

Odd instances of strange coincidence.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.

FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, Each smooth as those that mutually deceive, And for their falsehood each despising each.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.

There is much that is bad and meaningless in the universe, and the universe contains men who know that much is bad and meaningless. The Christian answer is that this is a good world gone wrong, but with a memory of what it should have been.

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Little birdie in the sky, dropped a poopie in my eye I didn't scream, I didn't cry, But I thanked the Lord cows can't fly!