The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Being human gets so tiresome at times.

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.