The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

To get answers of life, ask questions

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.