Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Awaken the spirit of divinity in you.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.