We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make better.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.