God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Oh my Valentine! I want to wake up and enjoy every sunrise with you and vanish into your hand at the sunset of my life.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets