There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.