A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Live each day as if it was your last day on earth.

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.

My new elf husband wasted no time in carrying me to the bed, then tumbling us both onto the coverlet.

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

If you're not in it for love, I'm out a here.

There are endless exercises for arms, but the basics are best-chinups and pushups.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.