Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Confidence is not what others think about you, it's what you think about yourself

Hate is such a luxurious emotion it can only be spent on one we love.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.