“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

In the particular is contained the universal.

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Places remember events.

Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

Until you have kids, you can’t imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

True friends are families which you can select.

Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I’m grateful to my mother for raising me with love and to all mothers out there for the important and challenging work you do every single day to make your family and the whole world a little bit better.