The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

When you stop being afraid you feel good

I can really find something interesting about almost anyone I talk to.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!