Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

No matter how high you climb on the ladder of success, never forget those who helped you when things were very rough in your life.

Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.