You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision is merely passing time; but vision and action together can change the world.