The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.