“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Are you so busy fighting you cannot see your own ship has set sail?

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.