Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.