Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Only and only handwork can get you to the front benches, where you get noticed by the God.

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

I am going through changes

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.