Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

E. M. Forster

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Michael J. Fox

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Lou Brock

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Flannery O'Connor

Venus is now astrologically square with Pluto. That means there isn't a hip planet left.

Jim Critchfield

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

Beth Ditto

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

Roald Dahl

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Henry David Thoreau

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens