“Total absence of humor makes life a total drudgery.”

Some women collect gossip, the way other collect jewelry.

If you have an hour to spare, don’t spend it with someone who hasn’t.

Mutual love is sort of constant mutual awareness and adjustments.

You must do everything you can, then trust God to fill in the blanks.

Poverty is a cruel disease but curable with intelligence and hard work.

Not everyone repeats gossip. Everyone improves upon it.

Whatever will satisfy one’s. Hunger is the real food.

Miracles do occur, but one has to work hard for them to happen.

A man is known by his books, his friends and the mistakes he admits.

Success is judged not by how you see yourself but by how others see you.

Since God made us originals, why stoop to be imitations.

The real-time to relax is when you’ve no time to relax.

What matters is not to add years to life but life to years.

Raise yourself from where you are. Have courage and rise high.

Love, like truth, can be shared, but not divided.

For a happy life, love the world and hate the word hate.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

I have no idea how I made it this far without you.

Never find fault with the absent.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.