Be contented, when you have got all you want.

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Originality is only variation.

If you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, use Cosmic Ordering.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.