TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.