We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish.

Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Now twilight lets her curtain down And pins it with a star.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.

It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

The difference between men and boys .... .... is the price of their toys.

To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness. -H. L. Wayland.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.