Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Life should be great rather than long.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes