It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

My mother was lost to me, but I wasn’t lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.