A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

That which costs little is less valued.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

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

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.