I get a standing ovation just standing

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.