For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

It is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

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