I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

we always knewthat good times camewith termination contractseven if we weren't quite readyto sign it.

Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.