A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream. I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.