True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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.

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.

I just don't know how to date.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.