Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The secret of true greatness is simplicity.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an irishman, afterward.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Enough is as good as a feast.