A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

Your soul awakens your mind. Your mind makes your choices. Your choices manifest your life. Your life is your lesson. Your lessons create wisdom. Your wisdom enriches your soul.

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.