Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

The realm of love is light of miracles.

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

You can be very wild and still be very wise