Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

When you connect with nature, you will create yourself.

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

I think life's an irrational obsession.