Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

It is all in the way of professional experience.

I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.