Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

We can invent only with memory.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.

Grind hard, shine hard!

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and Bless you.