We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Ill gotten power, money knowledge and qualifications will vanish faster than realized

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.