All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.'

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I come from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where Cabots speak only to Lowells, And the Lowells speak only to God.

Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.