Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

The hard part is what separates good from great.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.