So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do.

The real you is not you

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.