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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
To be prepared is half the victory.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.