It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.

Nah, that's not true.

He had acres of time there.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.