One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.