The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

A mouse in the paws is worth two in the pantry.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to

I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.