We wear the mask that grins and lies.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

I am blunt when I want to be.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.