Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

Gusty McCabe, tha's m' name and tellin' stories, tha's m' game, If they all ain't true I ain't t' blame, I'll tell 'em all just the same.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Bliss is not subtractbale.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.