The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.

When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.