I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
Words of love are works of love.
This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.
Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.