Honore de Balzac

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.