Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

It takes persistent practice to be skilful in the act.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.

My dear poetry, There’s a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.