Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.