Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change.

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

Let your joy scream across the pain.

I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.