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.

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

Each soul is potentially divine.

The future ain't what it used to be.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Common sense is not so common.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

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

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.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.