We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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 would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.

Fanscination is what keeps a writer going. To be able to write, a writer has to be fascinated about a particular something that becomes the idea of the story

The back is one of my favorite parts of a woman’s body. I love to trace and lick the shallow line of her spine, from the top and all the way down to the twin dimples at the base of her lower back.

Nay, Nay! Try thou not.But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.