Prince William of Wales

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

Those unproductive hands … may consume so great a share … that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate … this violent and forced encroachment.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.