If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

We are set to make very bad history.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often.

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.

A smile is happiness youll find right under your nose.

Wisdom doesnt necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Nobody knows what the future will bring but its a good bet that there will be a delivery charge.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

Risk management is a culture, not a cult. It only works if everyone lives it, not if it's practiced by a few high priests.

You know your life needs more excitement when your greatest challenge all week is removing the lint from your dryer's lint-screen all in one piece.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.