I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

I know certain truths about life.

The Little Drummer Boy" was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.

Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.