If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.