Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

A h** neva gets cold

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.