I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

You must work hard to get what you want.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.