A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

I think we are here to challenge ourselves and make ourselves better people and not just sit around in the world simply floating through life. You should be trying to do something great and making yourself better. You should be trying to evolve. That's what I'm trying to do, and that is very important to me.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

All my work is about how it feels to look.

What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.