Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.