"I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised."

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

"That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers."

"No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some."

"The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year."

"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

"Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home."

"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

"O, woe is me,To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."