One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.