Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

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.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

To live is to laugh, as to laugh is to live.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.