Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world

Life is a classroom.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.