There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

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.

I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.

when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!