The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Example is better than precept.

It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Life's too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it... and say it often. Oh, and start with God.

Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.