There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.