I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.

I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.