My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

I suppose that I found out two more constituents of the eternal engine: folly and curiosity.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.