Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

Health and education are always issues.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia!

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.