If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
The early bird catches the worm. The early worm gets eaten.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.