An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

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.

We often find that People who claim virtue are the ones to lack it the most.

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Know me for my abilities, not my disability.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

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