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In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order.
I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time
at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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"Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."
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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
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If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
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"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."
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"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
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Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies
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Love your enemies. It really pisses them off!
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies,
private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
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People like you and I, though mortal of course
like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how
long we live...[We] never cease to stand like
curious children before the great mystery into
which we were born.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide
your sources.
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If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer,
I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that,
I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.
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If you're a cowboy and you're dragging a guy behind your horse,
I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy
was reading a magazine.
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The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
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If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like now.
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
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Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than
some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
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If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror,
because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
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Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are
losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and
nobody got scared.
