“You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.”

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

Most days, I am the rain. – And that’s okay.

Sometimes I don’t like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I’m healthy now.

The only term I won’t accept is “genius.”

Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.