Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.