I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!