In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Have your one good cry, pick your chin up, smile, and move on to the positive.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands.

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.