I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

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

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Nothing is black or white.

Genius is sorrow's child.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

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