Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

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.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

I feel like a real cowboy! Yippi Ki Yay!

I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.