To me life is simply an invitation to live.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.

I write because that is what I am supposed to do.

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.

Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.