Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'