Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.