Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.