In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few “wisdom” passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.

Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

If you can put this book down, it means you need more coffee and less sleep. After all, sleep is for the weak which is why I get 8 hours every night and 2 hours during the day and drink de-cafe.

One of the most obvious signs of intelligence is not knowledge alone but imagination combined with reason.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Remember that nutrition is 90%; exercise is 10%.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.