“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

There’s no great loss without some small gain.

There is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

Like fireflies in the night, she has her way of dealing with the dark. -Illumination.

Even through the darkest night, know the world is moving towards dawn.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.