Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.