I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

I'm feeling better than expected.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.