Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.