It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

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.

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!

She smiled, and his dead heart warmed. One smile would never be enough.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.