Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Let it go to let it be.

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.