A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

When President Bush invaded Iraq after 9<br>11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

Thinking evil is making evil.