Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.

Never be afraid of the future, for it brings wonderful things.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

I have to do everything tomorrow first.