My father was often angry when I was most like him.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once.

In university, they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.