[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Jesus Christ gave the perfect definition for resurrection. Resurrection means 'passed from death unto life.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.