Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

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.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

The greater a man’s folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

I've played everything but the harp.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.

Too many proofs spoil the truth.