The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Become your own best friend—smile and say “I love you” to yourself occasionally.

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

When we cooperate, everybody wins.