"Within the problem lies the solution"

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."

"Hate is a wasteful emotion. Most of the people you hate never know it. The others don't care."

"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."

"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

"He who says, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,' has not been hit by a dictionary."

"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."

"OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury."

"ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."