How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.

It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

I hate any kind of owing of anything.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.