The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Control your “anger” because it is just ONE Letter away from “d”anger.

We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.