“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
These are the times that try men's souls.
“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.”
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
''Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.''
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
That government is best which governs least.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
Renew thyself completely each day.
She got her looks from her father. he's a plastic surgeon.
Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions i have, but in my lack of control of them.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
Our ideals are our better selves.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty. The only crime is getting caught.
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?