People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.