We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

We are all masters of our own destinies.

While we wait for life, life passes

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.