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

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

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's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

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

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thought is free.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.