Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Hey diddle diddle, Ray Rice up the middle.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.