[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.