None think the great unhappy, but the great.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

What's matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

Luck is sometimes merciful. The Game never is.

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

I'm not the best singer in the world I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

The fact that I'm three months pregnant doesn't change anything.

If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.