Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

You must realize that money is not good or evil

If you can successfully embrace the Anti-Matter version of yourself, Time would cease to exist for You. You are God!

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

We have to burn brightly. We can’t burn forever

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.