Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

Character is long-standing habit.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.