The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

Respectability offends my taste.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.