Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

Meanwhile, allow me to be me ….in all forms.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult