A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

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.

… remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops.

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.