Quotes by American authors

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair"

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

"I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same"

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you"

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity"

"I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal"

"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"

"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists"

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting"

"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy"

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

"Life loves the liver of it"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution"

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge"

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there"

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress"