Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters, ' said Sirius with a wry smile.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their successes will be better assured as they help to build the success of others

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.