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Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.