The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Free advice is often overpriced.

Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

I will be an artist or nothing!

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.