Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

Heaven is a perfect place God made for us who love Him! Alleluia! Amen!

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

The revolution begins at home.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.