The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.