Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)