You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

It is not all gold that glareth.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

He who shares my bread and salt is not my enemy.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I don't find it hard to meet expenses. They're everywhere.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Be present, it is the only moment that matters.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts, after practicing for years, you become the gap.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

My life is my message.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible!

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. That's what I believe.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.

In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . .

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the will of the people goes out the window.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

You're smart too late and old too soon. I just got caught up in that suction cup. I feel like Rip Van Winkle right now.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

The true Axis of Evil in America is the genius of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

The road to success is always under construction.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It's always too early to quit.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Vegetarian that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Genius is eternal patience.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

I am a sick man I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Never answer an anonymous letter

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Amplifying on the things improperly attributed to him, Yogi said: I never really said all those things I said.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

All attempts at mutual education are important to help us grow. It widens our vision.

You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Life is suffering.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write.

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called making love. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said sex is good. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting.

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

No man is wise enough by himself.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Life is about becoming more aware of who we are and how we fit into the world, not how the world has told us who we need to be. Ultimately, everything changes, and if you stop changing, you stop growing.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Life is but a dream but to many a nightmare. It's what comes after and in between lives that's reality.

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

This life isn't bad for a first draft

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream,realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game,play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure,dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt.

Life is too short to think small.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

They misunderestimated me.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up

You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

This is a pretty fable, and I will not deny that it is logically possible, but that is the utmost that I will concede.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.

We are star-stuff.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

It is one of the most powerful instruments to bring about a united nation, and it also says, let us forget the past. Let us think of the present and future,

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

We need bold initiatives to prevent new infections among young people, and large-scale actions to prevent mother-to-child transmission, ... In the face of the grave threat posed by HIV/AIDS, we have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people. History will judge us harshly if we fail to do so now, and right now.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Time's fun when you're having flies.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be?

If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.

One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Don't ever compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

Well, you know, it's interesting being 50, ... You start to reflect on your life. And you look back over the years at everything you've ever done. And, with age, middle age, comes wisdom. But I have to say that I'm not sure that 50 for me is the same as 50 in people years.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

There is no reason why sufferers should hide that they have been infected by this pandemic, ... when you keep quiet you are signing your own death warrant.

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

We must find ways and means to make lifesaving treatment available to all who need it.

It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

It's not easy being green.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

Many can brook (endure) the weather that love not the wind

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

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

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterward that is difficult.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

The journey is the reward.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.