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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.
I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.
It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.
You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.
People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it.
Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.
Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.
Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.
God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.
Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.
The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.
You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.
Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.
The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.
God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.