A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

You ought to pray for a strong heart and then you can endure all things.

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Coal is a portable climate.

I changed my mind," he said. "I'll take you up on helping me get a job." I almost swerved into oncoming traffic.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.