Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years, ” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

Tweaking your body, it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.