What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

Aren’t you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I’d be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron)

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.