Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

You are in control only if you control yourself.

Ha!: He laughed. "Almost all of them as a kid, but most recently it was my nose...for the seventh time. And I've had two concussions, three broken fingers, and a partridge in a pear tree.

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Don't Just Do Something: Stand There. Don't Just Stand There: Do Something.

I have a lot to learn from designers.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.