death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

Clowns have no respect for pie.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives