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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.