Our costliest expenditure is time.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

Let's start with what we can be thankful for & get our mind into that vibration and then watch the good that starts to come because one thought leads to another

You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.