Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

We may with advantage forget what we know.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

stick a fork in him, he's done.

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition for our shortcomings, using sorrowful and self-accusing words. And this often in all sincerity. But, at other times, we are not really much disturbed about it; or, at least, not nearly so much as our heaped-up language would imply. What we imagine that we are achieving through this unreality I do not know. We shall not fool the All-wise; nor induce Him to believe that we are anything other, or better, than we actually are! Were it not saner to tell Him the truth, exactly as it is -- not that we are overwhelmed with sorrow for our sinfulness, if it is not so; but rather this, that, to all our other sinfulness, we have added this last and crowning sinfulness, that we are not much worried about it, or, at least, not nearly as much as we ought to be. Be pleased, in pity, to grant us such measure of sorrow for our failures as will lead us to a true repentance; and, through that, to a new way of life.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.

O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.