You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

It takes very little to govern good people.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.