Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

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.

Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.

My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

With whomever you feel yourself as if you are with your very self, he or she is surely your true Valentine!

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.