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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.