Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

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.

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.