An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.