This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
The menu is not the meal.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
And you know, two heads are better than one.
Would you believe me if I said you were three shades short of all my favorite hues and that I’ve been trying for years to pick words from my garden throat in attempts to explain to you all the things I can’t explain. Or what if I said I have nothing to say other than I love you in the simplest of ways.
Time wounds all heels.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure and smell the flowers.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!
