I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Solitude begets whimsies.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

G'bye, I'm going out to play!

My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us best friends.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.