One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.