Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

The future is only the past again entered through another gate.

Stupid is not illegal.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.