All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Oh baby you ..got what I need but you say he's just a friend

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.