A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

Some people attend church three times in their lives: when they're hatched, when they're matched, and when they're dispatched.

A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookie Casper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

I am afraid that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

The sun, reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores, is unpolluted in his beam.

No one wants advice only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.

There is moderation even in excess.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.