The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.