Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.