The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I bleed passion. I’m not entirely sure what this means but I’m greedy over the words. They’re so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.

If you ever leave me I'll go with you.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.