Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?