I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

I make a new discovery that totally blows

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game.