All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

A lie never lives to be old.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.