I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

He downed the last of his coffee, carried his mug over to the pot, poured himself a refill, and returned to the

Avoid stress, the doctor had said. Eat lots of good food and enjoy this little mysterious bun cooking in the oven. Ha!

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.