You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

You cease to be wise or intelligent when your beliefs are false.

I am being adult day by day but the first sorrow of my life is still fresh as warm ash.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.