The poor are the blacks of Europe.

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.

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.

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

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Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.