Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.