I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.