when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.