You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.