It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

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.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.