The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty.

I have nothing to hide except for the fact i'm broken inside.

I have won.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

The question is yet before the court.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.