A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.