It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

Well done is better than well said.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.