A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Hopefully we'll be doing this forever, but we'll only have one first time.

There is no joy without gratitude.

Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]