MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.