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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.

There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.

Good people drink good beer.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.