I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.