Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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.

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

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.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.