Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Dissents speak to a future age.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.