There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

The only boring people I know are bored people.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.