Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

God bless us, every one!

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants.

We are betrayed by what is false within.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.