Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

The key word in profiteering is profit.

The fans have been great with me. I think they appreciate that I don't take an at-bat off.

I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.