Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

The greatest wonderful feeling is falling in love.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

You're insane, but you're my kind of man.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.