Each man has his fancy.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Stop. Stop trying to make the illusion of strength. You don't need it. Not here. Not now. Let yourself be sad until the real strength returns.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

I actually thought I had a meeting with congressman [Elijah] Cummings and he was all excited. Then he said, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically. I was all set.

I was raised to pursue my passions and pursue the things that I love, and to just live life to the fullest.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.