One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.

Love is acceptance without judgment.

Misfortune comes to all men.

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

Chance favours the trained mind.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.