"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."

"You are what you file."

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?"

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

"You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting."

"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled."

"If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

"Virtue isn't 'better' than vice. It's just different."