Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.

It takes a long time to become young.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.