Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong, And may you be in heaven Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Our minister announced that admission to a church social event would be six dollars per person. "However, if you're over 65," he said, "the price will be only $5.50."From the back of the congregation, a woman's voice rang out, "Do you really think I'd give you that information for only 50 cents?".

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

My love is like a cabbage, divided into two, The leaves I give to others but the heart I give to you.

Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Money talks.I'll not deny.I heard it once.It said good-bye.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.