How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Because, if you ever been in the state pennitentary, you understand if you're not in something, then you stay out of it, you know and that's how I do.That's a easy way to stay out of it!

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.