The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Pauline Phillips

"You could move.”
~Abigail Van Buren, "DEAR ABBY" In response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood."

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place.

In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.