Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

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.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don’t want it.

I can’t tell you the things I know, ” I repeated. “Why not?” “They aren’t my secrets to tell.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.