There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

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.

How do you learn if they don't make mistakes? It's good to make mistakes but not that many.

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.