If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.

Joy is wisdom I trust.

If they don't believe in you or your dreams, then their opinions of you are highly unimportant.

Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

You get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.

I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.