He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.
Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.
I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.
Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.
People create their own experiences.
You have to name it to claim it.
The less you know, the more you believe.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
