That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Nature is God's Old Testament.