The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

The stretch of years leaves none unmarked: the blissful sense of youthful invincibility peels away and responsibility brings its weight to bear.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.