Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
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 used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.