A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.
Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.
The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it.
I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.
Bad things happen sometimes.
Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.
I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.
You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.