I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

I marvel at everything as if it were new.

If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

He who conquers, endures.

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

I haven't got time for the pain.

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.