Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
A man of courage never wants weapons.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.
It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.
If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society, it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.
I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.