“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

My lonely soul drowns in empty bodies.