"Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!"

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb."

"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)."

"Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works."

"Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due."

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."

"The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil."

"Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea."