If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

People say ‘dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky’, this is your feeling, not the Dog’s!!!

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.

I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.

I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.