I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargements.

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.