Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Many a friendship-long, loyal, and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.
Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.
The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.
Few great men could pass Personnel.
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.