Author Quotes

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.