An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?