We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

Dream as big as you desire, but don't forget to wake yourself from it with some consistent effective actions.

Some of the braver say I am mad.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.