A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Believe, Believe, Believe.Anything is very possible.

God has something great in you that can take you very far in life if you consistently push hard and long enough, despite your fears and doubts.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Just have fun and take every bit of experience that you can.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.