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

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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.

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

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.