"Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self."

“I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."”

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“Then I wondered if that's all God ever is--somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are--different faces of God walking around.”

Source : Sheri Reynolds (1997). “Rapture of Canaan”, p.178, Penguin

“Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!”

“The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.”

“There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.”

“Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham". Interview with Laura Cohn, www.bloomberg.com. April 9, 2001.

“The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.”

“From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.”