What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

True change takes place in the imagination.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

The people I worked with were supportive, and I'm flattered that you would call what I did 'acting.'

Who doesn't know the easy, breezy, beautiful Covergirl line? I'm so excited to be the face of the brand in Australia and help all girls find and rock their inner Covergirl!

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.