Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

The sparrow still falls.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.