The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Free advice is often overpriced.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

People always grow and mature.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.