Form ever follows function.
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife.
Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else. It's all work, work.
Liberty is always unfinished business.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
Great men are not always wise.
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.