There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Smile more, help more, trust more, love more to live more.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Failure is my specialty.

But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.