Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.

To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.