A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

The world is not a rational place.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Longevity can't be the only test of love.

The only sacred home, you can live lies in your pure heart.

This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.

I've just had a really evil idea.""My favourite kind

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

You should have had the decency to die when you needed to." “Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.

Seven days without love makes one weak.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.