Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.