The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing; When o'er all the fragrant ground Early herbs are springing: When the brookside, bank, and grove All with blossom laden, Shine with beauty, breathe of love, Woo the timid maiden.

Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze, A Sapphire on her brow should bind, 'Twill cure diseases of the mind.