Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.