Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.