Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.