The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The future ain't what it used to be.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.