Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Don't tell people how good you make the goods; tell the how good your goods make them.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts.

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.