If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

He’s a man of few words except when it really counts. And when he does, every word has meaning.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

That’s Ash’s baby. (Kyrian) Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do. (Wulf)

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.