Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Free advice is often overpriced.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

He’s jealous because lions are better hunters.”--Monroe “Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” --Bastian

Your scented tears on white roses - Love is crying in a good way.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.