Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.