Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.