Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

A violent man will die a violent death.

With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies. And when she lies, she does not believe herself.

There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back the when it begins to rain.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

"Do you think there's a God?" "Well, ____SOMEbody's out to get me!"

Things are not always what they seem.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Nothing succeeds like excess.

"Hey, Sam, how about a loan?" "Whattaya need?" "Oh, about $500." "Whattaya got for collateral?" "Whattaya need?" "How about an eye?"

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives. I don't see why I should have to believe in it in this one.