Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.
The virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.