Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.