Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision.

Treat yourself like someone who is amazingly special. You are special!

Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

It's good to be alive.

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.