Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

We can't have jobs created in America if China is making all of our products.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity