Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Many of the Americans polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

The purpose of life is not to be happy -- but to matter.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.