The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Freedom lies in being bold.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.