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

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 of all days is one without laughter.

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

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.

Everything you attract into your life is a reflection of the story you believe and keep telling yourself.

Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t?

When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.

I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot