Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

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.

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

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.

You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

I think that we have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network. It cannot be contained, it must be defeated.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it