I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

That which costs little is less valued.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Boards don't hit back.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.