The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

A liar with a pen is a writer

It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men

I don't know what drives me to succeed.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU ACHIEVE, EVERY SEASON IS A NEW SEASON. WHAT YOU ACHIEVED THE SEASON BEFORE IS NO LONGER RELEVANT.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.