Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.