The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.