The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

I need to hold on to the faded love ‘cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.