We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!