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

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.

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.

Devotion to goal, knowing your purpose and calling helps you go through pain, hindrance and crisis

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

The title's more important than the book.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.