Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Without friends you have nothing!

Compassion is not something you have

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

When I was young, boys didn't type.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.